What most do not realize is that “some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. In this post, Clive Shepherd outlines four roles for social media in workplace learning (for further details please read his post!): Paul Adams summed the essential problem up nicely in “ Stop talking about “social ”. Social is not a feature.

I’ve been reading with interest recent articles and blog posts proclaiming that social practices won’t work in the enterprise. Posts such as ‘ You ready to fail at socialnetworking ’ and the excellent post from Jeevan Joshi ’4 reasons why employee social learning will fail at work ‘, have really made me think and reflect on the hype surrounding social business and more specifically the rise of socialnetworks / communities within the work environment. Do you want to provide a social space for your people?

billion searches on the LinkedIn platform. LinkedIn now has over 2,116 employees (up from 500 in 2010). What are you doing with your students to help them use socialnetworks so they work for them, not against? There are some more excellent infographics on Jeff Bullas’ blog (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+), check them out.

The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. These tools give us a way to connect with people faster and more easily than ever before. A lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to socialnetworking. Blog this! More about me here. Properly d.

Today Monster.com dropped the gauntlet and launched BeKnown , a new Facebook application that hopes to become the professional socialnetwork for Facebook users, and a vital new tool for recruiters, human resources, and talent acquisition teams. Facebook vs. LinkedIn for Professional SocialNetworking. They even publish their location.

Here’s a short ‘how to’ guide on displaying your Open Badges, or a Mozilla backpack, on your LinkedIn profile. Login to your LinkedIn account, and go to the edit profile interface. LinkedIn will parse the details to the link, hopefully pick up one of the badges and use this for the display. You? . How about this … ? Save your edits and check the results.

To those that are beginning to utilize LinkedIn like Facebook, my apologies in advance, but I’ve been removing you from my network list. To me, LinkedIn is a professional network / contact management arena and if you are using it to supply graphics of “what word do you see first” or “enter your email in the comment box and your direct contact list will grow by 100x”, well … you’ve lost the plot on the importance of what a business network is all about. socialsocial media socialnetworkingfacebooklinkedinMORE >>

While socialnetworking can be a powerful means of communicating on an individual and organisational basis, employees don’t always make the connection between their professional and personal online presence. Employers, meanwhile, are often concerned about the potential damage that social media posts might have on their organisation’s reputation, with managers and HR often the ones expected to pick up the pieces when things go wrong. Socialnetworking can be good for you and your organisation. Here’s our top seven socialnetworking sins to avoid.
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We all have an avatar on our socialnetwork accounts. At the time he was useful as few people used illustrations, favouring more social and personal photos. He was used everywhere, except LinkedIn. For LinkedIn I used a (slightly) more professional, but stylised, B&W photo. So, for the duration of the BYOD4L course I changed my Twitter avatar to the same as my LinkedIn one (for no other reason than I liked it): But then I realised that I didn’t need or want to hide behind an illustration any more. How LinkedIn works. Smile? Colour?
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However, skeptics around the world question the potential of Google+ with the failure of Google Wave and competition from Facebook. Although Google+ is still in its early stages, its unique infrastructure – focused on distinguishing user groups – might be all that is needed for this network to rise above its competitors – including LinkedIn. Prasanna, a former Google employee, provides a unique perspective on the subject, explaining the demise of Google Wave and the drama of the Google versus Facebook competition. Dhanji R. Ask A Gen Y
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In a recent post, RWW reports that “In a study of 300 hiring managers andrecruiters, Palo Alto-based socialnetworking monitoring service Repplerreports that 76% of hiring managers look at applicants' Facebook profiles. Anadditional 56% are looking at Twitter, and 48% check out LinkedIn.” The fact that recruiters should be checking out basic infoon socialnetworks makes perfect sense to me. said my career profile is listed on LinkedIn and asked him if he had checkedthat before calling me. SocialNetworking India Recruitment Recruiters Jobs HR
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